“Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.”
“The dead are older than the living, he thought. Irrespective of how old they were when they passed over to the other side, they have experienced something which makes them older than any living thing.”
“The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.”
“In the deep glens where they lived, all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
“That's what birthdays were. Days when you found out where you stood. Who was on your side and who wasn't. Nothing to do with how old you were.”
“You might think there is nothing more patriotic than dying for your country, but I think there is nothing more patriotic than living for your country.”